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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
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Subject: [DNG] what Emacs really is, jokes aside.
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:16:48PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 23/05/2016 19:49, Jaromil a écrit :
> >I have no use for a PDF
> >viewer that can't print. Else I'd just use Emacs for that too ;^)
> >_______________________________________________
>
>     Indeed it does! I didn't even thought to try that. Looks like
> one of these useless features in Emacs, given the number of pdf
> viewers, or is it that Emacs wants to become a DE by itself. I read
> once it can also send mails, and it can act as an IDE. I use it only
> to edit files - and for Dr psychologist :-)

>
>     Didier


Emacs is not trying to be a development environment; it always was one.

Emacs is an excellent user interface, development environment, and
desktop for ancient, text-only terminals. That's what it was for back
in the day. That's what it still is.

But people seem to be able to afford better terminals
these days.

-- hendrik